"Captains of industry" represented a ________ in Europe and the United States in the 1800s
A) new nobility
B) large labor force
C) powerful new elite
D) new voting bloc
C
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As in 1919, the end of the war in 1946 brought __________
A) a wave of strikes B) an influenza epidemic C) a surge in union membership D) relative racial harmony
How did Marxists view the economic downturn that became known as the Great Depression?
A. They welcomed it because they believed it signaled the imminent downfall of capitalism. B. They resented it because they believed it would thwart their plans to spread socialism throughout the world. C. They feared it because they believed it would make the masses reject their labor initiatives. D. They used it to manipulate public opinion and accelerate the spread of socialism around the world.
What was the Fronde?
A) A peasant revolt in France B) The resistance of the nobility to the policies of absolutism in France C) Resistance by Huguenots to royal policy D) The on-again, off-again war with Spain E) None of the above.
In September 1938, Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister, offered Adolf Hitler terms of "appeasement," which included the stipulation that Hitler
What will be an ideal response?